479 – Bill’s Bash Scripts Bring All The Boys To The Yard
First up in the news: Mint Monthly News – January 2026,
In security and privacy: Theres an SSH Stalker
And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions
The News:
Mint Monthly News – January 2026
Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally. Face scan or I.D. needed?
Firefox Announces ‘A.I. Controls’ To Block Its Upcoming A.I. Features
AppManager offers drag-and-drop AppImage management.
Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month
The Memory Crisis Is Taking No Prisoners
Ubuntu getting rid of the Software & Updater tool
Security and Privacy:
SSHStalker Botnet Uses IRC C2 to Control Linux Systems via Legacy Kernel Exploits
Contact Info:
- Joe – Tllts.org, linuxlugcast.com, [email protected], Buy Joe a coffee
- Moss – Full Circle Weekly News, [email protected], Mastodon @[email protected], occasionally on HPR
- Bill – [email protected], Bill_H on Discord, @[email protected] on Mastodon, also checkout the other podcast I am on, Linux OTC (with Eric & Majid).
- Majid – [email protected] @[email protected], Atypical.doctor on Instagram and Threads and The Atypical Doctor Podcast and also Linux OTC and Distrohoppers Digest.
- Eric – I can be reached by email at [email protected].
- Charles – [email protected], Mr PDX on Discord
- Jim– [email protected], GNU2Linux on Discord, The Linux Shortcut on YouTube
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- Bill for our audio editing and for hosting the server which runs our website, website maintenance, and the NextCloud server on which we host our show notes and raw audio
- Archive.org for hosting our audio files
- Hobstar for our logo, initrd for the animated Discord logo
- Londoner for our time syncs and various other contributions
- The Linux Mint development team for the fine distro we love to talk about <Thanks, Clem … and co!>
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